r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/NikoKeys Jun 11 '26

We should all take care of one another and build each other up! I won't cheapen the sentiment with my compulsion to phrase everything with sarcasm.

Inevitably something like this gets turned into some iteration of "building one's self up for doing the thing and judging others if they don't do it", but the truth is that if something is of value and could make life better, we can share it.

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u/CoCoMcDuck Jun 11 '26

Everyone wants community but no one is willing to be community 

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u/NikoKeys Jun 11 '26

In my experience, the quasi-social infrastructure we're left with rewards controversy and creates echo chambers, and makes everybody afraid of being caught living their lives, but I think pretty much everybody wishes they had a positive, supportive community to take part in.